On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 10:25:51AM -0400, Nick Guenther wrote: > On 10/12/07, Stuart Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 2007/10/12 11:47, Raimo Niskanen wrote: > > > > Use the disklabel: it has a disk name field that can be edited. > > > > > > Great proposal! > > > > > > I may be blind, but can not find an editable name field. Which is it? > > > And how can I edit it? > > > > Label - you can edit it with disklabel -e. > > > > But I thought the problem was that he wants the first USB cable to > always be the first USB backup--with constant churn of USB keys (so > that there are many). Each key is only used once. How does editing the > disklabel help in that case? >
Ouch! My reading was too sloppy - I thought I recognized an old problem of mine. Well,... to make editing the disklabel useful, one would have to change strategy and tag the disks to which set they belong, and not use the USB cable as set identifyer... > -Nick -- / Raimo Niskanen, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB
